How researchers attributed authorship of the Federalist Papers

Posted by David Hardy · 18 January 2017 02:42 PM

Article here. The main contenders were James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, and at the end there were a dozen papers with unsettled authorship. Comparing other, known, writings of the two men, they found both used sentences of the same average length, but there were other clues, as as Hamilton used "while" but Madison used "whilst."